Says Bell Via CBS Sports:
“Shaq told me a story. We had a kid named Gordon Giricek on our Suns team, he had gotten there, and Gordon would go in the game, and Gordon was about his buckets. So Gordon would get in, and no matter what we were doing, no matter what the flow or the chemistry was, Gordon would be just, you know, shooting the ball. Gordon was my guy, I played with him in Utah.”
“But Shaq started saying, ‘Hey guys, this is the symbol (twitches thumbs downward). When I give you this, Gordan doesn’t get the ball anymore.’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, what is the background on that…where’d you come up with that?’,” Bell said.
“And he was like, ‘When Kobe was young, he would be going in and just trying to get ’em, so the rest of us had a universal kind of code that if we looked at each other and went (gives signal) then that meant Kobe didn’t get the ball anymore.'”
Kobe and Shaq’s dynamic was one of the more compelling stories in sports.
Sure they won a ton, but just imagine if they could have put their egos aside for the greater good.
They easily could have won 8 or 9 championships.
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